Preschooler Activity for the Letter I

Here's a fun one for the Letter I. I had grand ideas about making homemade ice cream with my 1970's ice cream maker we inherited from my grandparents...and then luckily thought of this idea which was much easier. I had some tiny ice cream cones on hand that we painted with brown paint...

I ended up giving the girls two cones--one to paint and one to snack. I was afraid that they'd nibble on the painted one when I wasn't looking.

Then we used small styrofoam balls for the ice cream scoops! I had the girls paint them and let them dry for a bit. Then we decorated them with googly eyes and beads and sparkles to make them fancy.

We attached the scoops to one another with toothpicks and added another toothpick at the bottom of the first scoop to get it to stay in the cone.

"I" is for ice cream! Just as memorable as the home-made stuff.

Toddler Activity for the Letter I

For the Letter I, we talked about inchworms. At the beginning of the week we went on a family hike in the mountains and the girls found a tiny silk worm which they thought was pretty fascinating...

I found some books at the library about inchworms and this was our favorite! 

 

We decided to replant our bean seeds that we did for the letter G ("grow") and this time we painted inchworms on the outside, using our fingertips.

 









We hope they grow this time!

Activities for Preschoolers: "I Spy" glasses

We love to play "I spy" when we go on walks, so these glasses were a nice change from our "I Spy-o-scopes."

sun glasses + googly eyes

We used hot glue, but regular Elmer's would work as well. It would just take longer to dry.

And there you go. You're ready to hit the town.